Any official rules for ballistas and catapults?

[Dagger of Lath]

Can you sneak attack with a ballista?

More importantly, do you need to?

 

[Goldmoon]

More importantly, do you need to?

You always need more damage.

 

[zoroaster100]

If one person can easily reload a ballista in 12 seconds and an ogre can easily reload a ballista in 6 seconds, I don't see why two persons working together as a team could not easily reload the same ballista in the same time as one ogre.

 

[FrostedMini1337]

Can you sneak attack with a ballista?

If you can't I have a player who cheated.

You just have to ready an action til they knock down the door. They are suprised and flat-footed, you make your attack roll.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I'd rather make ballista and catapults use ranged touch attacks.

 

[Ranger REG]

I'd rather make ballista and catapults use ranged touch attacks.

Against creatures? Use Area of Effect attack. I wouldn't even try to apply armor as DR against a 500-lb stone.

 

[boolean]

Can you sneak attack with a ballista?

If you're within 30ft. 60ft if you have the Crossbow Sniper feat from PHB II.

And if a ballista is simply a huge heavy crossbow, doesn't this mean that Rapid Reload should help reduce reloading time?

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Can you sneak attack with a ballista?

I steal his pants!

 

[JoelF]

Does Heroes of Battle have rules for destroying siege equipment? I was very dissapointed when I realized the DMG didn't have hardness, hp for a balista.

 

[Arkhandus]

You can probably eyeball it as having 4 times the HP of a Medium heavy crossbow, with the same hardness (as hardness is determined by material/composition, whereas HP is a factor of both materials and mass; bigger or thicker objects have more HP, but the same hardness as other objects of the same material).